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'Guerrilla', el malware que burla Google Play This fake application allows cyber attackers to carry out suspicious promotion campaigns using infected devices to download apps    Experts from Kaspersky Lab have discovered an Android Trojan called 'Guerrilla', which tries to overcome the anti-fraud protection mechanisms of the Google Play store through a fraudulent application that behaves as if there was a person behind it. This fake application allows cyber-attackers to carry out suspicious promotion campaigns using infected devices to download, install, vote and comment on publications on Google Play. However, this malware is not only capable of abusing the mechanisms of infected devices.    With millions of users and software developers, Google Play is an attractive platform for cybercriminals. Among other things, cybercriminals use Google Play to carry out the so-called Shuabang campaigns, which are widespread in China. These fraudulent advertising activit...

Samsung sells its printing business to HP for 1,600 million This decision responds to the intention of the South Korean firm to focus on its main lines of business such as televisions and smartphones    Samsung Electronic.s will sell its printing business in the US to the printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard (HP) for approximately 2 billion South Korean won (1,600 million euros), the Seoul Economic Daily reported Friday. The decision of the company, which according to the South Korean head will be made official during the next week, responds to Samsung's intention to focus on its main lines of business such as televisions and smartphones.   In this sense, the South Korean firm leads the sales market for telephones, televisions and memory cards, while it is behind HP, Canon and Epson in the printing market. In 2014, the company began a divestment process in which it withdrew its interests in four chemical and defense sector subsidiaries for which it obtained a tota...

Gas Biker, the app that monitors the safety of motorcyclists It has a system that allows to send signals to emergencies if the driver suffers an accident    Since mid-September, bikers with Android smartphones can download the Gas Biker app on their devices and travel "accompanied" and "more secure". In this app, developed by Andrés Muñoz, lovers of two-wheeled vehicles can create travel groups where you can share routes with family, friends. Thanks to this function, all bikers can be reached at any time thanks to their location on the map.   In case of accident or any other type of incident with the Emergency Call Travel System (ECTS) system, created by the company, the app contacts the emergency services when an accident is detected during the trip. The system formed by a series of algorithms automatically activates the call to an Emergency Call Center when suffering a mishap after being registered by the sensors of the smartphone. In addition, this notice...

Twitter makes the limit of 140 characters more flexible Photos and videos will no longer be counted in the content of the messages    The social network Twitter relaxed this Monday the rule that limits its 'tweets' to 140 characters, announcing that the photos will no longer be counted in the content of the messages. "Say more with your 140 characters! Photos, videos, GIF, questions and quotations will no longer be counted," the company tweeted, which seeks to expand its audience and achieve benefits. Amid rumors that Twitter would be looking to cut costs or even be acquired, the company based in San Francisco has added services, including live videos.    The latest decision makes it more flexible, although it does not completely eliminate the 140-character limit, which had been established because of the limitations for text messages transmitted by mobile phones when Twitter was launched in 2006. Analysts warn that Twitter needs to find ways to attract users...

Autonomous boats will arrive in Europe in 2017 The waters of the canals of Amsterdam will receive the first robots ships    If the autonomous cars begin to accumulate kilometers by the highways of the United States, to the other side of the Atlantic Amsterdam prepares to receive the first boats without captain. "Imagine a fleet of autonomous boats for the transport of goods and people," Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carlo Ratti said in a statement from this research center. The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions is working on a project that will culminate in 2017 with the first trips through the capital's canals with robot ships.   The scientific director of the Dutch center, Arjan van Timmeren, said that these boats "offer enormous possibilities" and could have application in environmental and health issues, such as detecting diseases in advance once progress is made in relation to underwater robots. The pro...

Spanish researchers develop a microsensor to detect respiratory problems It self-harnesses energy and is able to detect respiratory problems such as sleep apnea or pneumonia    Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (IMB CNM - CSIC) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) have developed a thermoelectric sensor based on silicon nanotechnology, which is self-sufficient in energy and is able to detect respiratory problems such as sleep apnea or pneumonia. "Its particularity is that it does not consume external energy, but uses the residual heat for its self-supply, which makes it autonomous, easily integrated into wireless networks and significantly less expensive than other devices on the market," says Sebastián Moreno, CEO of FutureSiSens, the technology-based company that researchers have created for commercialization. The sensor is extremely sensitive for the detection and measurement of very...

Iceland will not appear in Fifa 17 due to an economic disagreement «We do not accept being mistreated; we made them a counter offer, but they did not accept », argues the president of the federation    The Icelandic team will not be part of the Fifa 17 football game, despite its great performance at Euro 2016, due to the fact that it did not reach an economic agreement, the Icelandic Football Federation (KSI) informed.   The KSI indicated that it had negotiated with the creative company, the American Electronic Arts, but they did not reach an economic agreement. "We did not accept being mistreated, they offered us less than two million Icelandic crowns (15,500 euros), we made a counter offer, but they did not accept it," said its president Geir Thorsteinsson. "I do not know what they offer to the other federations, they say they offered the same thing to similar federations," he added. The decision was criticized by an expert in marketing, Andres Jonsson, wh...